Cement-roofing-tile-making machine.



No. 804,944. r PATENTED NOV. 21, 1905 A. GASPARY.

CEMENT ROOFING. TILE MAKING MACHINE. v

APPLIOATION FILED FEB. a. 1905.

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CEMENT ROOFING TILE MAKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. a. 1905.

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ALFRED GASPARY, OF MARKRANSTADT, NEAR LEIPSIC, GERMANY.

CEMENT-ROOFlNG-TlLE-MAKING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

Application filed February 3, 1905. Serial No. 244,030.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED GAsPARY, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at Nordstrasse, Markranstadt, near Leipsic,(1rermany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cement-RoofingTile-Making Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others, skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a beating and stamping press for making cement-roofing tiles and the like with'which owing to the special form of the beating-plate or beating-iron the cement can be uniformly consolidated under all circumstances and even a workman of but moderate experience enabled to produce well-beaten and clean roofing-tilestl1at is to say, tiles with perfectly correct lines.

With the beating-tables employed hitherto for making figured grooved roofing-tiles the ramming of the cement and the forming of the surface of the tile cause the greatest difliculty, as the uneven surface does not admit of the employment of simple beating-hammers for ramming the material, and,more0ver, the outline of the tile requires that the smoothing-plate shall be guided accurately when the surface of the tile is smoothed down. With the present invention these difliculties are obviated, as for the purpose of concentrating the cement in the mold a narrow plate is employed, which is adapted exactly to the profile of the tile and connected, by means of Iongitudinal fillets or bars also exactly adapted to the profile of the tile, with across-bar, which can be moved longitudinally in special guides and allows of the plate being moved up and down and also lengthwise of the mold-box, at the same time surely and accurately guiding the beating-plate in any position. After the cement has been concentrated the beatingplate can be used as a smoothing-iron, any lateral movement of the beating-iron that would cause unevenness on the surface of the tile being prevented by the longitudinal fillets Z in conjunction with the lateral guides.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan of the beating device; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3, a partial transverse section of the beating device; Fig. 4, a transverse section of the guide for the beating-iron, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the machine.

The beating-plate or beating-iron provided with a handle is formed in accordance with the profile of the tile; but not only does the profile extend over the beating-iron itself, but special profile-fillets Z are provided running from the deeper parts of the profile and connected together at the ends by means of a bar s and guided between the bars a by means of pins 2, arranged on the bar s. The beatingiron p is thus doubly guidedviz., in the first place, by the longitudinal fillets Z, resting in the recesses of the figured edge of the moldbox, and, in the second place, by the pins 2, supported between the bars a, whereby even after considerable wear inaccuracy in the movement of the beating-iron is not to be feared.

In using the beating device the cement is first introduced in the usual manner into the mold and then made compact by means of the beating-iron p, the material being given a series of blows by means of the iron 9, beginning from the back, and the beating-iron 0 being drawn forward continuously, so that there is a succession of blowsthat is to say, that after each blow the piece p is moved forward at the utmost to the extent of its own width.

As only a narrow strip of the cement is concentrated, whenever there is any excess of material in the mold the material can readily yield to the blow.

The longitudinal fillets Z are no hindrance at all to the superfluous material, for as they are at a considerable distance apart the superfluous cement can pass on both sides between the fillets, whence after the concentration has been efiected it can be got rid of when the beating-plate is pushed back.

In consequence of the arrangement of the longitudinal guides at the beating-iron, as previousl y mentioned, can be employed as a smoothing-iron after the cement has been concentrated.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a beating and stamping press for making roofing-tiles or artificial stones in which the material is beaten or pressed upon a beating and with it the beating-iron substantially as I table or mold, a beating-iron consisting of a described.

narrow plate provided With a handle and hav- In testimony whereof I have affixed my siging the contour of the tile to be formed, lonnature in presence of two Witnesses.

gitudinal fillets or bars also shaped to the con- 1 tour of the tile and connected With the plate ALFRED (TASPARY' at one end, a cross-bar fixed to the opposite Witnesses: end of the fillets and a pair of guides fixed to RUDOLPH FRIOKE,

the table and adapted to guide the cross-bar S. P. WARNER. 

